Implications of the negative capacitance observed at forward bias in nanocomposite and polycrystalline solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 640-650

  Mora Seró, Iván ^a   Bisquert, Juan ^a   Fabregat Santiago, Francisco ^a   Garcia Belmonte, Germà ^a   Zoppi, Guillaume ^b,f   Durose, Ken ^b   Proskuryakov, Yuri ^b   Oja, Ilona ^c   Belaidi, Abdelhak ^c   Dittrich, Thomas ^c   Tena Zaera, Ramón ^d   Katty, Abou ^d   Lévy Clément, Claude ^d   Barrioz, Vincent ^e   Irvine, Stuart J C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE SPECTRA; FORWARD BIAS; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; POLYCRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS;

CAPACITANCE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SULFIDE; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR ENERGY; SULFIDES; TELLURIUM;

EID: 33646386165     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl052295q     Document Type: Article

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